Essential Guide

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  An Essential Guide to Depeche Mode

  PUBLISHED Nov 15, 2016

  They are the world's biggest electronic rock'n'roll band. Pioneers of British new wave, Depeche Mode didn't just break through in the '80s,...

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  An Essential Guide to Nick Cave

  PUBLISHED Oct 11, 2016

  In early performances with his first band, Nick Cave looked more like a pouty pop-punk teen idol than the man who would become one of alter...

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  ​An Essential Guide to Green Day

  PUBLISHED Oct 4, 2016

  When Green Day broke through in 1994, few could have predicted that the Bay Area trio would still be together in 2016, let alone be one of...

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  An Essential Guide to Lee "Scratch" Perry

  PUBLISHED Sep 27, 2016

  Genres like trip-hop, dubstep and drum'n'bass can all be traced back to a subgenre of reggae music known as dub. At its most reductive, dub...

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  An Essential Guide to Bright Eyes and the World of Conor Oberst

  PUBLISHED Sep 20, 2016

  For 20 years, Conor Oberst's music has been synonymous with abject misery. As the principal member of Bright Eyes, the Omaha, NE-bred singe...

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  ​An Essential Guide to Willie Nelson

  PUBLISHED Sep 15, 2016

  One of the true masters of American music, Willie Nelson's gifts as a songwriter, vocalist, guitarist and performer are almost unparalleled...

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  An Essential Guide to Buffy Sainte-Marie

  PUBLISHED Sep 13, 2016

  After spending years delving into Buffy Sainte-Marie's pan-genre discography — seriously, she's done it all, and she's done it better than...

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  An Essential Guide to Dolly Parton

  PUBLISHED Sep 6, 2016

  Dolly Parton is such a pop culture icon you could almost be forgiven for forgetting she's first and foremost a singer-songwriter — not to m...